Live Auction
Pepitone, Richard - "Homage to Alexander Archipenko"
- Item Number
- 149
- Estimated Value
- 4500 USD
- Opening Bid
- 1000 USD
Item Description
Medium: Bronze
Size: 11 1/2"h x 3/4"w x 1/2"d
Date: 1985
This item will continue in the Live Auction at the museum on the evening of August 15, 2015.
Item Special Note
Born in Brooklyn in 1936, Pepitone became an apprentice to sculptor Alfred Van Leon in Greenwich Village at age 20, opened his first studio in the East Village, studied in Florence, Italy and has been working in Provincetown for over 30 years. Through these years, he has sought variety in creating sculptural forms, working in polyester resin, bronze, raku and copper from recycled pipes.
During the 70's and 80's, Pepitone created female figures of life size dimension and form in polyester resin in his "Negative Dimensional Form" series, sanding and polishing them to perfection. He moved to bronze in the mid-80's, discovering classical bronze fragments of the female figure more lovely to his eye.
In the late 80's Pepitone began to think about the pollution generated from his work. Wanting to make his process more sensitive to the environment, he began creating abstractions of the human figure.
Finding three weathered oars at the Provincetown Harbor, Pepitone leaned them against the wall and one day they spoke to him. He was led to contemplate abstract figures and images akin to Native American iconography, shields and totems.
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